Coso rock art - National Park Service

The shamanic trance was seen as a ritual death, a dying to the everyday world. Likewise, the hunting and killing of a bighorn was a metaphor for the "merging" of the shaman with the sheep spirit, and his "borrowing" of the sheep spirit's power to bring rain. A medicine bag body is symbolic of the merging of the shaman and his ritual objects. ................
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